1st Edition

Japanese Linguistics Critcal Concepts in Linguistics

Edited By Natsuko Tsujimura
1312 Pages
by Routledge

Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in theoretical developments. However, once scholars started to pay more attention to Japanese, its similarities to and differences from Indo-European languages not only revealed a great deal of typological variation, but also... Read more
Volume 1: Phonology and Morphology Volume 2: Syntax and Semantics Volume 3. Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Contact

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Edited by Tsujimura Natsuko